Sentence examples for aging characters from inspiring English sources

Once Justine has been resurrected — it happens gratifyingly quickly — the novel settles into a relaxed, old-pro routine of genre parody, light irony and gentle philosophizing: nothing too taxing for an aging fabulist and his aging characters.

In England, the picture got a rather sour reception ("I only wish 'Last Orders' felt as youthfully cranky as its aging characters act," said Jonathan Romney in The Independent), as if such modest virtues could be taken for granted there.

The aging characters start tall and proud but end up battered wrecks — Hawks shows how to be as funny as a crutch — and the romantic hero turns out to be a poetry-spouting young dandy (James Caan) on his own vengeful mission, who scatters his buckshot widely.

Recent Roth works - Everyman (2006) and Exit Ghost (2007) - have focused on aging characters who ponder the imminence of extinction.

Branding experts say aging character franchises are among the most difficult to keep alive because they require continually walking a tightrope.

So sometimes the accompaniments a tomato chutney, for the beef rissoles, or the Sir Kensington's ketchup came on like aging character actors in supporting roles, upstaging the leads.

So sometimes the accompaniments — a tomato chutney, for the beef rissoles, or the Sir Kensington's ketchup — came on like aging character actors in supporting roles, upstaging the leads.

She had to gain five kg weight to fit her aging character.

And she added to the mix an element of the uncanny, through which the existence of a transcendent, eternal and immaterial reality impinges on the lives of her ageing characters, reminding them of their mortality.

Still Open All Hours, starring David Jason playing the same, but much aged character he played alongside Ronnie Barker in the original Open All Hours, was watched by 7.5 million viewers, making it the highest rated comedy from the BBC this year.

But his desire to reminisce on the days of dope cartoons by aging animated characters is what has really attracted thousands of double-tapping fingers to his work.